How much IT spending is happening in the cloud? A lot. And a big slice of it is being managed by Cloudability (client). How big of a slice? $1 billion (cue Dr. Evil laugh). ReadWrite’s Matt Asay breaks the story and finds parallels between the cloud and how open source software exploded across the enterprise.
Read MoreGluecon 2013: It’s Not the Things
It’s not the things. It’s the things that make the things work. That’s the core of Gluecon, one of a very select few conferences that are on my must-attend-at-all-costs list. Held every May in Broomfield, Co., Gluecon brings together a who’s who of the tech industry’s smartest people. You won’t find a Zuckerberg, Mayer or…
Read MoreOf Airports and Thermostats
Know what’s fun on a rainy Labor Day? Catching up on a weekend’s worth of links from Twitter. Know what’s even more fun? When one of your favorite bloggers writes about how we’re on the precipice of a period when “machines will communicate in increasingly human-like ways.” Know what’s even more fun than that? When…
Read MoreDefining the cloud
I didn’t find this book at Amazon…but I very well could have. “War and Peace” would have nothing on the size and weight of a book attempting to definitively answer the question: “What is cloud computing?”
Read MoreMeat Clouds and Serverhuggers
About a week ago, I posted my roster of The 2008 Cloud Computing All-Stars (I’ll be updating this shortly with new players and possibly a poll). Botchagalupe followed it up this week with his inaugural 2008 Cloudies Awards. My favorite category is his Best New Cloudy Terms (of which his top two for 2008 are…
Read MoreThe 2008 Cloud Computing All-Stars
One of the most talked about technologies of 2008 was unquestionably cloud computing (okay, maybe not unquestionably…this is the tech industry, afterall). Cloud computing — from consumer-level apps such as Facebook to big company entries such as Microsoft’s Azure — dominated a good part of the tech conversation over the past year. And, like most…
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